SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY

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ASSEMBLY:Galactic Senate which is made up of representatives from the ruling council of the five major corporate entities: The Hyderon Corporation, Trini Corporation, Border Worlds Corporate Alliance, Oceanna Consortium, and Trithen Industries. The Assembly oversees corporate dealings, territorial disputes and sanctions new entities entering into corporate service. The Assembly is also responsible for maintaining the unification of the Rampian, Trinonian, Myateken, Valconian and Eden sectors of space surrounding the Triad Abyss, as well as the inhabited border worlds of the galaxy.

BOUNTY HUNTER: Corporate operative sent back in time via symbiont connection to a former life incarnation, or adjunct connection to an earlier time in a person's life.

BOUNDARY INTERFACE: The area of space immediately between the Triad Abyss and the boundary layer separating the threshold of coexisting universes.

BOUNDARY LAYER: An artificially created ring of energy used as a separation device between the thresholds of a manufactured universe and its originating reality.

BORDER WORLDS: The ring of inhabited planets surrounding the Triad Abyss. The border worlds consists of millions of new and emerging planetary bodies, many of which have undergone the Industries' regenerative process in preparation for off-world mining operations, terra-forming, or reconstitution of artificial life.

CORPORATE ASSASSIN: A corporate representative with the authority to eliminate obstructions to corporate needs, including but not limited to elements of past dealings, hostile takeover scenarios, and individuals the corporate entities consider non productive, or a hindrance to the development of influential economic stability.

CORPORATE RUNNER: Entities sent into the past to do corporate business.

COSMIC WAVE BOUNDARY: Edge of an expanding artificially created universe.

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GATEWAY: The mode of transportation used for quick access to border world planets.

HOUND TRACKER: Transit Authority Investigator. The Hound is a ravenous beast-shaped machine designed to remove rogue travelers from both the commercial and tourist transit systems. The creature is feared and considered unstable and extremely dangerous, but has yet to be retired from interplanetary service.

INTEGRATED TACTICAL OFFENSIVE LINEWARRIOR: (ITOL)The corporate soldiers used to patrol the boundary regions between the Triad Abyss and the threshold of the artificially created universe connecting wave corridor interface. Established as a line of defense against hostile intentions from alternate realities.

JUMPSHIP:Vehicle capable of traversing the Time Wave Corridor.

KALAMAR:Ancient race believed to be responsible for living light technology, which allows the creation of artificial life on a natural occurring repetition. Considered comparable to the life giving energy in all living things.

LIVING MACHINE: Entities given existence using living light technology.

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REGEN: The process by which artificial life can be renewed or rejuvenated to a younger, more stable age.

REGENERATION: Regen on a planetary scale. Still experimental, but shows hopeful results on tentative worlds.

SODIN: Lunar body discovered to be a planet-size world machine housing the Industries' Temporal Convergence Laboratory. Project failed, created the area of space known as the Triad Abyss––Birthplace of the alternate reality created by the Industries and the connecting corridor threshold between universes.

Please note: The experiment was never shut down and maintains the threshold of temporal convergence to this day. Site allows the passage between the past, present and future of the connected universes.

TEMPORAL INCURSION: A break in the boundary layer separating the original universe from its manufactured counterpart. Incursions can occur in any period: past, present or future.

TEMPORAL WAVE CORRIDOR: The connecting bridge between alternate realities. Available for transit in both universes; universes are multilayered and varying emergence points are at set intervals.

TEMPORAL WAVE CORRIDOR TRANSIT SYSTEM: The system of transit used by the ITOL warriors to traverse the corridor between the universes. Used during operations between alternate realities.

TRIAD ABYSS: Failed experiment residue enveloping the area of space around the planet-size machine world of Sodin: Once thought to be a living mass capable of draining the life energy from all living things in existence, the mass has lied dormant for thousands of years. However, there are signs that the mass is returning to life.

TRITHEN BARRIER: Theorized to be the residue from the big bang initiated in the creation of an artificial universe at the heart of the temporal convergence laboratory on Sodin.

TRITHEN INDUSTRIES: A self-proclaimed power among the giant corporations, which resides on a thousand worlds ruled by the Corporate Assembly. This vast conglomerate consists of five-mega corporations that span the known universe. Trithen Industries and Trini Corporation are the largest, while Konsus Amalgamated, Hyat-Raa Research laboratories and the Hoval-Malee Corporation control the other third of the empire. Control is absolute and unconditional.

TOUR TRANSIT SYSTEM: Economy class: Similar to the commercial system.

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VALCONIAN SYMBIONT: Living machine, (manufacturing date unknown) artificial life form with the ability to bridge life giving energy of an individual with his or her past, present, and future incarnations.

VESSEL MEDALLION: The hardened edge of the living machine symbiont.

WINDRIGGER: Pirate ship. Twenty-two gun sailing vessel with bellowing sails, ice runners spars and tether lines. Most famous of the jumpships used in the Battle of Echo Pass, during the great exodus of humanity.

At the heart of the UCP (Universe Creation Project) is the revolutionary Sodin Time Step Core. "This massive wave generation device shows promise in the area of wave corridor propulsion technology and should open the threshold to a whole new means of high-speed transportation throughout the galaxy," said Trithen Industries representative and CEO, Trithen Kellnar. "The idea is to create a travel nexus, which will allow transit across the space-time continuum. Breaking the energy boundary that separates the layers of the universe is our top priority."